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1. Research

   ‘Without Land We Are Nothing’: The Effect of Land Tenure Policies and Practices upon Rural Women in Kenya

   Davison, Jean. 1987. “‘Without Land We Are Nothing’: The Effect of Land Tenure Policies and Practices upon Rural Women in Kenya.” Rural Africana 27: 19–33.

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   Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Agriculture, Economies, Gender, Women, Land Tenure, Households, Livelihoods, Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Kenya

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   Daughters of the Lakes and Rivers: Colonization and the Land Rights of Luo Women

   Okeyo, Pala Achola. 1980. “Daughters of the Lakes and Rivers: Colonization and the Land Rights of Luo Women.” In Women and Colonization: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock, 186–213. New York: Praeger.

   Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Gender, Women, Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa

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   Falling Between Two Stools: How Women’s Land Rights are Lost between State and Customary Law in Apac District, Northern Uganda

   Adoko, Judy, and Simon Levine. 2008. "Falling Between Two Stools: How Women’s Land Rights are Lost between State and Customary Law in Apac District, Northern Uganda." In Women's Land Rights and Privatization in Eastern Africa, edited by Birgit Englert and Elizabeth Daley, 101-20. Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, James Currey. 

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   Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Gender, Governance, Indigenous, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Land Tenure, Rights, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Uganda

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   Coping with History and Hydrology: How Kenya's Settlement and Land Tenure Patterns Shape Contemporary Water Rights and Gender Relations in Water

   Onyango, Leah, Brent Swallow, Jessica L. Roy, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick. 2007. “Coping with History and Hydrology: How Kenya’s Settlement and Land Tenure Patterns Shape Contemporary Water Rights and Gender Relations in Water.” In Community-Based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries, edited by Barbara van Koppen, Mark Giordano, and John Butterworth, 173–95. Oxfordshire: CAB International.

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   Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Development, Ethnicity, Gender, Women, Gender Roles, Gendered Power Relations, Land Tenure, Governance, Infrastructure, Water & Sanitation, Livelihoods, Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Kenya Keywords: legal pluralism, land tenure, water tenure, gender roles, integrated natural resource management, Property Rights, policy framework, community participation

   

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   Land, Labour and Gendered Livelihoods in a 'Peasant' and a 'Settler' Economy

   Amanor-Wilks, Dede-Esi. 2009. “Land, Labour and Gendered Livelihoods in a 'Peasant' and a 'Settler' Economy”. Feminist Africa 12: 31-50.

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   Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Land Tenure, Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa

6. Research

   African Women's Movements in the Twentieth Century: A Hidden History

   Berger, Iris. 2014. “African Women’s Movements in the Twentieth Century: A Hidden History.” African Studies Review 57 (3): 1–19. 

    

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   Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Conflict Prevention, Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equity, Post-Conflict, Rights, Women's Rights, Violence Regions: Africa, East Africa, West Africa Countries: Kenya, Nigeria Keywords: women, empowerment, protest movements, healing, international women's movements, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

   

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   Producing Participants: Gender, Race, Class, and Women, Peace and Security

   Martin de Almagro, Maria. 2017. "Producing Participants: Gender, Race, Class, and Women, Peace and Security." Global Society. doi: 10.1080/13600826.2017.1380610.

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   Topics: Class, Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Gender, Women, Gender Balance, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Hierarchies, Peace and Security, Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict, Race, Rights, Women's Rights, UN Security Council Resolutions on WPS Regions: Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, West Africa Countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia